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Sunnyside Gardens
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"Seventy-seven acres of barren, mosquito-infested land were transformed into a great and successful experiment in urban housing design…" is how the AIA Guide to NYC describes Sunnyside Gardens.
Inspired by the English Garden City movement, this group effort in Queens by architects, landscapers, and real estate developers (as well as architecture critic Lewis Mumford, who lived there for over a decade) was built between 1924 and 1928. Today, the Historic District is 17 blocks and all of the buildings have adjacent garden spaces, in addition to Sunnyside Park. (The Park is private, but open to all residents for a fee and some volunteer time).
From A. Richard Miller's site Sunnyside and Sunnyside Gardens, you can get a lot of additional info and see things like floor plans of the Phipps Garden Apartments (built in 1931).
The Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance is important for anyone interested in the preservation of this special place. The area was landmarked [PDF] in 2007. More on Sunnyside from their Chamber of Commerce.
  
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skint - adj. british slang (1930-35)
lacking funds, broke, bust, stone-broke, impecunious
Around town this weekend, courtesy of the skint: a daily listing of free and cheap things to buy, see, do and eat in New York.
12-8pm (ongoing): swat away the winter blues with free badminton at open house gallery's indoor pop-up park 'park here', free
fri 8pm: the new york guitar festival kicks off with a live 30th anniversary re-imagining of brian eno's tribute to the nasa moon landings, apollo: atmospheres and soundtracks, performed by itsnotyouitsme, larry campbell, david torn, noveller, tortoise's jeff parker, and phish's mike gordon. wfc, free.
fri-mon 8pm (+ 1/11-14, 18-21): award winning play samuel + alasdair: a personal history of the robot war presents an alternate reality in which the cold war was decided by a massive robot invasion. new ohio theatre, $15-18.
sun: confound and arouse your fellow commuters during the 11th annual no pants subway ride, free with $2.25 subway fare
sun 1-4pm: slow-cookin' smackdown! amateur and pro chefs compete in the 3rd annual cassoulet cook-off at jimmy's no. 43. $20 admission benefits greenmarket's hurricane farm relief.
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